john tar row of texas and of course strom thurman. that was it. >> that's right. >> every republican senator was gung ho for voting rights. today what would the vote be? >> it will be almost the opposite of that, and what i try to tell students, chris is we have to be students of history, but also understand this particular moment. it gets real tricky, when you think about the history and how they have sort of switched sides, and a lot of progressives think the democratic party is kind of the republican party of the immediate future, so there is some confusion, but these particular cases, we have to pay attention. what attorney general holder is looking at is the section of the voting rights act that hasn't been gutted that prohibits any kind of voting practices that discriminate or what they refer to as linguistic minority. congress in the '80s added certain addendums, so the courts could use important information, to look at the history of a particular state or district, to look at racial polarization, to look at representations, so